Kubernetes Security Engineer: Platform Defense & Tooling

SpaceX Super Intelligence; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceXSI protects the Kubernetes-based platform that runs X and SpaceXSI, actively seeking risks and turning them into durable fixes. You will secure nodes, clusters, pods, secrets, and supply chain while building tooling for safer scale.

Based in New York with office options in multiple locations, this role emphasizes practical controls, threat modeling, and cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in platform security or offensive security against production infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of pod and workload security: privileged containers, capabilities, host namespaces, host path mounts, service accounts, RBAC, admission control, and network isolation.
• Ability to think like an attacker and translate findings into detections, controls, or tooling.

Responsibilities

• Secure the platform end to end: nodes, clusters, pods, roles, tokens, secrets, service-to-service communication, and the supply chain.
• Find and remediate overprivileged permissions, dangerous pod and workload settings, and escalation paths in operators, admission, networking, identity, and monitoring.
• Assess our platform the way an adversary would, then fix what you find.
• Design and build security tooling and automation, including AI-assisted analysis, that catches risky configuration and overprivilege before or after it ships.

Skills

Kubernetes security

Attack path thinking

Policy as code

Collaboration

Tools

Go

Python

Rust

Helm

GitOps

Job description

SpaceXSI protects the Kubernetes-based platform that runs X and SpaceXSI, actively seeking risks and turning them into durable fixes. You will secure nodes, clusters, pods, secrets, and supply chain while building tooling for safer scale.

Based in New York with office options in multiple locations, this role emphasizes practical controls, threat modeling, and cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced environment.